When you love someone, they will inevitability hurt you. How do you find the ones worth suffering or? Is it someone with a good heart who has just made some mistakes? Or is the person selfish who cares more about themselves than others?
Earlier this year I talked about how the responsibility of love is to keep another’s heart safe. I went in depth on healthy traits of an intimate relationship. Below are what they are in a nutshell, and you can click on the link to the post to read about what these traits look like.
- You can be happy and whole on your own.
- There is trust on both sides.
- Each person is authentic, and they love and respect who each other is at their core.
- You both know how to effectively communicate.
- Each person takes personal responsibility for their own feelings, actions and thoughts.
- You treat each other with respect.
- You both welcome boundaries and aren’t offended by each other setting them.
- Each partner makes the relationship a priority and actively put forth effort.
- You both know how to resolve conflict.
- Both show gratitude and appreciation for each other.
When you have these 10 traits in your relationship, getting through those difficult times are much easier. You meet problems in your relationship as a team and work to overcome them together.
